Unusual Convict Blenny species

[JackKerouac]

Hello
Today I've been to LFS and i find out that there were just one left Pholidichthys so I did bought it too.
Last night I was looking my tank with lights off and I saw them swimming perlustrating my tank.
They are accepting frozen Artemia as food and I'm tring also with Cyclops eeze,but they prefer Artemia .
I did a couple of pic more for you guys I just did with light off so quality isn't the best.
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=104899&thumb=1

 

[JackKerouac]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8797129#post8797129 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SDguy
Commonly known as engineer gobies here in the US. Very cool fish! My favorite eel replacement for a reef.

Yes I'm loving them too !
I hope they can live long in my tank and I can't wait to see the metamorphosis

 

[EnderG60]

yeah that's what was throwing my off, so it is atually a blenny then? Ive been wondering why mine attacks the sheet algea so much.

please more pics, and I cant find any links to that fish on any of the sites posted.

 

[Angel*Fish]

What is "perlustrating"?

 

[monacoplc]

Gemini,

I'll definitely take some pictures after the busy holiday I have some rock curing right now and will be re-arranging the tank after they're done curing (sooo not looking forward to it lol) so after everything is finished I'll post some pictures. I have a picture of one of the Coral Crouchers that I saved when I bought it from ffexpress.com under my gallery and that's the best picture you'll ever see since they're always hiding between the branches of my acropora or the rocks and theyy're super hard to see.

Marie,

On one of the sites I found out that the female from the blenny species I have gets up to 25cm in length (about 8-9 inches I think?). Mine is about 6 inches-7 inches right now so we'll have to wait and see if he/she is going to grow any bigger

 

[ClamIAm]

I'll chime in with what I know about this species. It is Pholidichthys anguis as far as I can tell, which was described in 1996, so it's not surprising that there is a lack of knowledge about it. The genus Pholidichthys is in its own family in Perciformes, and is not in the suborder Blenniodei but is in the suborder Trachinoidei along with sand perches and stargazers.

 

[JackKerouac]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8800316#post8800316 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Angel*Fish
What is "perlustrating"?

sorry for my english
I meant to patrol to check my tank swimming around

 

[Amphiprion]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8800639#post8800639 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ClamIAm
I'll chime in with what I know about this species. It is Pholidichthys anguis as far as I can tell, which was described in 1996, so it's not surprising that there is a lack of knowledge about it. The genus Pholidichthys is in its own family in Perciformes, and is not in the suborder Blenniodei but is in the suborder Trachinoidei along with sand perches and stargazers.

Actually, Pholidichthyids have since been moved into their own suborder, Pholidichthyoidei. They are still in somewhat of a taxonomic flux, considered somewhere between blennioids and trachinoids, but still distinct.

 

[Angel*Fish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8801389#post8801389 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JackKerouac
sorry for my english
I meant to patrol to check my tank swimming around

Your English is excellent - I don't think we have a word for that so I nominate "perlustrating"!

 

[Angel*Fish]

On one of the sites I found out that the female from the blenny species I have gets up to 25cm in length (about 8-9 inches I think?). Mine is about 6 inches-7 inches right now so we'll have to wait and see if he/she is going to grow any bigger

That's great - a very manageable size

 

[sunfishh]

Just tagging along
Monacoplc that is an awesome looking fish